Rapidly growing historical research underpins move to reassess the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade

“In the past 20 years, we have seen such an extraordinary enrichment of what we know about the past,” says Professor Margot Finn (UCL History) as she argues “that genie is simply not going to go back into the bottle,” with regards to the reappraisal of history.

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